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April 12, 2018[…] lights of evening, or the sprawling train maps at every train stop. Fractured grammar made even familiar English words on shop signs and T-shirts seem foreign. But it didn’t matter. My assigned companion was […]
[…] lights of evening, or the sprawling train maps at every train stop. Fractured grammar made even familiar English words on shop signs and T-shirts seem foreign. But it didn’t matter. My assigned companion was […]
[…] house prior to dedication and marveled that it was even possible to get materials for, much less finance, such a beautiful building. They assumed—incorrectly—that all the money had come from the United States. Stylistically the […]
[…] the First Presidency has made a statement discouraging mod ern-English versions of the Book of Mormon (Church News, 20 Feb. 1993), but I honestly don’t see what they’re upset about. After all, the church […]
[…] (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987), 138-61; Richard L. Jensen, “Mother Tongue: Use of Non- English Languages in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United States, 1850-1983,” in […]
[…] concluded that the principle of plural marriage must have been revealed to Joseph Smith in 1831 (Deseret News, May 20,1886). In the December 8,1831, Ohio Star, Ezra Booth wrote of a Mormon revelation to […]
[…] initiated excommunication proceedings against McMurrin. When David O. McKay, then president of the Mormon church, heard the news he called McMurrin on the phone and arranged to meet him that same afternoon at the […]
[…] 1954 Sonia graduated from Logan High School. A year later she entered Utah State University as an English major and earned a B.A. degree in 1958. While at Utah State, she met her future […]
[…] considers than rejects major concepts of Mormon doctrine. In a 1978 interview she said, “I’m on a search, although I didn’t deliberately set out to make a search in poetry. I have a philosophical […]
[…] know all along?) By the time we arrive home, the rain has stopped and the clouds are breaking up. Seth, running on the infinite energy of youth, rounds up his friends for a short […]
[…] a -person. At first, it was odd, and there was an ominous feeling that we were all breaking some sacred code. But after I got used to it, my name rounded clean and whole […]